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  • Walter Munk (1917–) is an influential physical oceanographer and geophysicist, professor emeritus of geophysics, and secretary of the Navy/chief of naval operations oceanography chair at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California. He made fundamental discoveries in different fields, such as the effect of the moon on tides and the circulation of the deep sea. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Warming & Climate Change; Munk, Walter]

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